Strangely, it is true. Until quite recently there was no scientific explanation as to why. There have been many reasons suggested from 'natural balance being restored' to 'divine intervention'. However Corry... (read more)

The various 'Population Clocks' on the internet vary by around 150 million a percentage of 2.2%, even then these are statistically calculated numbers and who trusts statistics? That being said there seems no better way of working it out so here goes!... (read more)

We have sent unmanned probes onto the surfaces of Venus (USSR 1966), Mars (USSR 1971) and Mercury (US 2008). A probe reached Jupiter (US 1972) but it is a gas giant so there is nothing to actually land on, a further probe descended into it's centre and... (read more)

There have been a total of 45 missions that have reached the moon: 25 sent up by the US, 6 of them manned14 missions executed by the USSR3 in the Japanese programand 1 each for the European Space Agency, India and China.... (read more)

Several nations, either individually or as joint efforts have landed on the moon in various ways. The first man made object to touch the moon was the Soviet craft Luna 2 which was intentionally crash landed in 1959, it took another three years... (read more)

It is impossible to answer this one as figures on who has watched a film would be impossible to collect. Hollywood likes to talk about money grossed rather than bums in seats (or indeed any quantative measure of enjoyment). So although the highest grossing... (read more)

The speed you have to travel to escape the earth's gravitational pull is often incorrectly known as the escape velocity, true it is the speed required to escape the Earth's pull but the term velocity requires direction as well... (read more)

I love this question because the answer is so easily understood - with diagrams of course! Imagine... (read more)

Zsa Zsa appeared in some 28 movies but also appeared in many TV series which maintained her popularity, particularly in the US. She is even better known for the number... (read more)

All human skin reacts to sunlight by darkening unless the skin is naturally of the very darkest sort. Avoid the sun, and any other source of ultra violet light, the main cause of this effect, and your skin will become lighter. If you can organise your... (read more)

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Circuit breakers are tripped by an electrical fault. This could be short circuit, drain to earth, or overheating (typically a result of a short circuit). Circuit breakers are designed to protect the device they are in circuit with. But more importantly... (read more)

Terminal velocity is defined as the point at which a falling body (a human one in this case) stops accelerating - i.e. It reaches a constant velocity... (read more)